transfer technique is that the nature of the exercise itself is a justification for its use. Information transfer is an excellent learning strategy because it requires the
learners to process deeply the information that they are dealing with and to deal with two types of encoding of that material.
Information transfer exercises can be used productively. In productive information transfer the learner look at a diagrams pictures or other non-linguistic form then
use it as the basis for writing or speaking. This productive use often works best after the learners have had some experience of the receptive equivalents because
these can act as a model or example of the production required.
2.6. Teaching Speaking Through Information Transfer
Speaking is one of the language skills that must be mastered by the English learner. The speaker has to master the element of speaking, such as: grammar,
vocabulary, fluency, pronunciation, and comprehension. English teacher have responsibilities to improve students’ speaking ability, so the teacher needs to
choose the best teaching method in order to solve the problem faced by the students in their speaking class. The teacher also needs the appropriate technique
in order to improve the students’ speaking ability. There are a lot of techniques that can be applied by the teacher to the speaking class in order to improve
students’ speaking ability; one of the techniques is information transfer task. Information Transfer task means transferring data from one form to another. In
this case the information that will be transferred by the students is from non- linguistic media like pictures and charts to oral language. The role of teacher in
this technique is as the provider of pictures and charts that will stimulate the students to speak and transfer the information from those pictures or charts into
oral language. From the explanation above we can conclude that information transfer task is
behaved to be an effective technique to improve and help the students’ speaking ability.
2.7. Procedures of Teaching Speaking Through Information Transfer Task
As have been stated before, information transfer task can be used for receptive language listening and reading and productive language writing and speaking.
In this case, information task will be used to teach productive language, especially speaking skill. The procedures of teaching speaking through information transfer
task by Palmer 1982 will be explained bellows: a. The teacher prepares non linguistic medias like picture and charts, then
distributes them to the students. b. The teacher gives students some times to study the picture or charts.
c. After studying the non linguistic medias, the students produce talk in front of the class that convey the information of non linguistic medias in
complete sentences. Based on the procedures of teaching speaking through information transfer task
by Palmer above the researcher decided to add some other activities and those procedures were arranged and written on the lesson plan for the first and second
cycle of the research.
2.8. The Advantages of Information Transfer Technique
Nation 1991 states that there are some advantages of Information Transfer Technique, those advantages are:
1. The information transfer task give a deep understanding or comprehension to the students by asking them to make the change of the form of the
information.
2. Information transfer task give learner more control over their learning procedures.
3. In information transfer technique, the difficulty of the exercises can be adjusted according to the amount of the information provided.
4. Information transfer task will be more interesting if the text includes or contains the information about the learners’ experiences.
Those advantages can help the teacher in improving students’ speaking ability, for example teaching learning process through information transfer task can be more
interesting since the media that would be used by the teacher in teaching can attract students’ interest and can stimulate students’ creativity in arranging the
words before do the speech in front of the class.
2.9. The Disadvantages of Information Transfer Technique
Nation also implies some disadvantages of using Information Transfer Technique in teaching reading, those are:
1. The class will be noisy. This happens because Information Transfer Exercise invites the students to have discussion among them; therefore the class will be
noisy. In order to overcome this problem, the teacher has to control the class well. The teacher has to make sure that the students are discussing the task not
anything else. So, it is fine if the class is noisy but, the teacher has to make sure that it is not disturbing other class.
2. It will be take longer time. In speaking activity, the students have to memorize the information that has been transferred before. So that the students have to
analyze the media first and they also have to understand the exercise. This will take longer time because the students have to understand two forms of
material. To overcome this problem the teacher has to manage the time well so the teaching learning process will be effective and will not wasting time.
Although it needs longer time than usual teaching learning process, if the teacher can manage the time well the result of the teaching learning process
will be better than usual teaching learning process too.
